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| Fresh anti-govt. protests held in Yemen (by PressTV)
Thousands of Yemeni protesters have staged mass protests, dubbed "The Last Chance Friday," demanding the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The people gathered after the Friday prayers in several cities, including the capital Sana'a, and Taizz, AFP reported.
Four people were killed during clashes between protesters and security forces in Taizz on Friday, according to reports.
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| | Iran, China plan joint energy CMTE (by PressTV)
Iran and China have agreed to form a "joint oil and gas committee" to accelerate the execution of energy projects between the two countries, says the Iranian minister of economic affairs and finance.
"The aim of forming this committee is to speed up projects execution and to develop the Sino-Iranian ties in the field of energy," IRNA quoted Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and...
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| | 9 killed in NATO Libya attack: Report (by PressTV)
At least nine people have been killed in the latest attack by NATO fighter jets in the Libyan city of Sirte, Libya's state television said.
The attack comes as the US and its allies have stepped up military and diplomatic efforts to further pressure Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi to stop killing opposition forces and quit power.
US President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed predator...
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| | Four terrorists killed in Western Iran (by PressTV)
Iran's security forces have killed four 'Salafi-linked' terrorists during an armed clash in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan.
The Salafi elements were killed on Thursday in the Hassan Abad area of Sanandaj, an informed source in the public relations office of Iran's Intelligence Ministry told Press TV on Friday.
In a terrorist attack on March 5, the...
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| | 'ME revolts foiled global powers plots' (by PressTV)
The recent popular uprisings in the Arab world have scrapped plans by world powers to weaken the Middle Eastern and North African countries, says the former Iranian foreign minister.
"The bipolar world (after World War II) ... [sought] to suppress or divert any uprising," ISNA quoted Manouchehr Mottaki as saying at an academic conference in the eastern city of Birjand on the current...
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| | Japan to expand no-go zone (by PressTV)
Japanese authorities have asked residents of five other areas outside the no-go zone to prepare to leave their homes in a month over the country's post-quake nuclear woes.
"We are very sorry for causing further trouble. I would like residents in those areas to evacuate to other places," AP quoted Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano as saying on Friday.
The government announced the no-go...
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| | 'Pakistanis united against US hegemony' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-22-2011/news_analysis.flv The Washington-Islamabad relations have become further complicated with the controversial US drone attacks in Pakistan and the involvement of America's secret service operatives in the Asian country.
Press TV talks with Naveed Ahmad, a defense and diplomacy...
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| | Israel injures four Palestinians in Gaza (by PressTV)
At least four Palestinians have been wounded in separate incidents after Israeli troops attacked the blockaded Gaza Strip, medical sources say.
Three Palestinian laborers were injured when Israeli tanks opened fire on a local factory east of Gaza City, a Press TV correspondent reported on Friday.
The laborers were moving the rubbles after the Israeli bulldozers destroyed eight factories and...
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| | Poisoning Mother Earth: Fukushima and America's Gulf (by Stephen J. Lendman)
 As best we know it, the shocking truth is that preventable disasters keep proliferating life destroying contamination globally. Yet news about them is suppressed, so few people everywhere are unaware how calamitously they're being harmed.
As a result, distinguished environmental researcher, Dr. Ilya Perlingieri, now warns to stay out of rain because it's likely radioactive. So is drinking...
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| | 2 firefighters die in Texas wildfires (by PressTV)
Wildfires across the US state of Texas have claimed the lives of two firefighters while engulfing over 730,000 hectares of land and nearly 400 homes across the southern state.
Ongoing wildfires in the state of Texas have killed volunteer firefighters Elias Jaquez, 49, and Gregory Simmons, 51, AFP reported.
Jaquez died of fire-related injuries after trying to control a fire near Dumas, Texas...
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| | NATO tankers torched in N Afghanistan (by PressTV)
Armed men have attacked NATO oil tankers transporting fuel for US-led forces in north Afghanistan and set them ablaze.
Fuel and other vital supplies for the US military and NATO forces in Afghanistan are mostly transported from Pakistan through a route in tribal regions on Pakistani-Afghan border.
Supplies arrive by sea in Karachi, where security analysts believe most of the Afghan Taliban...
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| | 2010 State Department Human Rights Report on Egypt (by Stephen J. Lendman)
In her book, "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," Marjorie Cohn quoted a former CIA agent saying: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear....you send them to Egypt." In fact, Egypt under Mubarak and current military leadership is proficient in all of the...
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| | 'Al Khalifa regime cannot be tolerated' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/a-al-shahabi-04-20-2011.flv The Bahraini regime faces total dismay from members of the European parliament following Manama's crackdown on anti-government protesters and demolition of mosques.
On March 13, Saudi-led forces were dispatched to the island at Bahraini regime's...
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| | 'Bahraini forces torture patients' (by PressTV)
Saudi-backed Bahraini forces have tortured anti-government protesters in hospitals, indicates an investigation by the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR).
The group said in a Friday report that Bahrain's security forces stole ambulances and posed as medics to round up injured protesters during a crackdown on the unarmed protesters.
The group alleged "systematic and targeted attacks against...
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| | Iran urges UN action on Israeli crimes (by PressTV)
Iran's Deputy Ambassador to the UN Eshaq Ale-Habib has urged the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to stop Israeli crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Ale-Habib called on the UN Security Council to end the "impunity" with which Israel has committed war crimes in the blockaded sliver.
"Impunity for the perpetrators of war crimes will encourage more crimes by them,"...
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| | Barack Hussein Hoover? (by Patrick J. Buchanan)
 Is the world headed for a debt crisis to dwarf the one that befell us in 2008, when Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson stood aside and let Lehman Brothers crash?
No one knows for certain. As Yogi Berra said, "it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." But the probability of a financial crisis increased this week after President Obama's trashing of Rep. Paul Ryan's deficit...
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| | Pakistan militants kill 8 Shia hostages (by PressTV)
Taliban militants have killed eight Shia tribesmen in Kurram tribal region of northwestern Pakistan as the security situation further deteriorates in the strife-torn areas of the country.
Eight beheaded bodies were found on the roadside in Shehdanodand area of lower Kurram tribal region late on Thursday, a Press TV correspondent reported Friday.
The victims, along with 24 others, were...
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| | Americans gloomy on economic outlook (by PressTV)
A newly released survey shows that Americans have become more pessimistic about the country's economic outlook since Barack Obama assumed power in 2009.
According to the joint New York Times/CBS News telephone poll released on Thursday, some 39 percent of Americans believe their country's economy is deteriorating.
About 70 percent of the 1,224 participants said the nation was moving in the...
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| | Arab nations to hold fresh protests (by PressTV)
People in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Yemen have planned to stage new anti-government protests to continue their movement against the ruling regimes.
Anti-government protesters in Saudi Arabia will hold massive protests on Friday to protest against the US-backed monarchy's military intervention in Bahrain and human rights violations in their country.
Saudi activists announced that they would...
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| | 'West fears democracy in Bahrain' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-20-2011/husain_abdulla.flv The West is worried about the emergence of a democratic government in Bahrain, fearing that it will jeopardize its interests in the Middle East, a Bahraini human rights activist says.
"There is a fear among the US and other Western countries that somehow...
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| | Burkinabe president assumes new post (by PressTV)
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore has declared himself the new defense minister days after protests and soldiers' mutiny led to violence in the West African country.
"The president (of Burkina Faso), commander in chief of the army, has assumed the function of defense and veterans minister," AFP quoted a government decree read on state television on Thursday.
Compaore has appointed a...
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| | Report: 28 mosques razed in Bahrain (by PressTV)
About 28 mosques and 50 mourning halls have been demolished in Bahrain since the beginning of anti-regime protests in February, a report says.
Activists told Press TV on Friday that the mosques were destroyed during the anti-government protests. Some of the mosques were located in Karzakan, Salmabad, Bu Quwah, and A'ali.
Bahraini people have poured to the streets since February 14 to...
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| | 'Bahrainis brutalized by Saudi Forces' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/r-shoenman-n-rajab-04-20-2011.flv King of Bahrain has welcomed joint efforts to fund and implement a training program in the US for recruits to serve in the regime's police and army forces.
Press TV interviewed the President of Bahrain Center for Human Rights Nabeel Rajab...
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| | Japan's radiation 20,000 times limit (by PressTV)
Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant operator says the level of radiation in the water that leaked into the sea is 20,000 times the annual legal limit.
The leaked contaminated water contained approximately 5,000 terabecquerels of radioactive substances, which is 20,000 times the annual allowable limit for the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) said on Thursday.
TEPCO added that 520...
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| | 'Iran subsidy plan to unfold rewards' (by PressTV)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the positive impact of his administration's subsidy reform plan will transform the country's economy in the near future.
"The implementation of the subsidy reform plan will encompass significant outcomes in the country's economy within the next five years," Ahmadinejad was quoted by ISNA as saying on Thursday.
The Iranian president called on...
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| | US fiscal situation unsustainable: Obama (by PressTV)
US President Barack Obama says his country faces "unsustainable" financial situation amid concerns over Washington's failure to tackle the national debt and budget deficit.
Obama, who has kicked off his 2012 re-election campaign, made the remark during a meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where he struggled to convince the audience that his deficit reduction plan can...
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| | Nigerian president warns of civil war (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-22-2011/nigeria.flv Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has warned of a civil war after post-election riots left hundreds dead and many more injured, reiterating that any violence will be decisively dealt with.
Rallies broke out in many northern Nigerian states and over 38 million...
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| | AFP Was Right: U.S. Funding Arab Uprisings (by Michael Collins Piper)
The first inkling came in a report buried inside the Post on March 10, under the headline "U.S. funds web firms that help Mideast dissidents skirt censors." The report read in part: The Obama administration may not be lending arms to dissidents in the Middle East, but it is offering aid in another critical way: Helping them surf the web anonymously as they seek to overthrow their...
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| | FBI unlocks 'the vault' (by Pat Shannan and Victor Thorn)
Conspicuously missing are files from the Oklahoma City bombing and TWA's downed Flight 800. Evidence has shown that the FBI was instrumental in the cover-up of pertinent facts in both of those high-profile cases. In upcoming months AFP will profile other intriguing gems contained within the FBI's vast database. Some of these stories may broach subjects familiar to AFP and past...
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| | Globalists Attend Bevy of Policy Meetings (by James P. Tucker Jr.)
Since these sessions happened around the same time, the international elite had to agree on instructions to give the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), which met in Washington over the weekend of April 16 to April 17. Henry Kissinger was the biggest yo-yo, giving the same speech at all of these meetings. David Rockefeller, 94, had less bounce. As Rockefeller's valet, Kissinger...
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| | NAM urges Israel to abide by law (by PressTV)
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called on Israel to abide by its responsibilities under international law after Tel Aviv ignored to stop illegal expansion of settlement activities.
In a statement on Thursday, Egyptian Ambassador to the UN Maged Abdel Aziz, who spoke on behalf of NAM at the Security Council, said Israel's settlement activities totally contradict its so-called sincerity in...
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| | Iran: US, Israel assist drug dealers (by PressTV)
Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar says Israel and US intelligence agency (CIA) have taken up a campaign to push Iranian youth towards drug addiction.
"The Zionists and CIA agents in the region assist drug dealers at Iran's joint borders with Afghanistan," Mohammad-Najjar said on Thursday.
"These [so-called] advocates of human rights have undertaken the task of investing...
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| | Papal Imposters (by CathTrad)
{vimeo width="560" height="340"}22725355{/vimdeo} This film will attempt to show that Catholics around the world have been defrauded of their interitance, the unadulterated teachings of the Holy Roman Catholic Church and the one and true Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. | | No Fly Zone Over Palestine (by Ken O'Keefe)
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel's bombings of Gaza must stop. 
We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power on a regular basis. We intend to tell the story of how the people of Gaza suffer the effects of...
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| | Japan approves emergency budget (by PressTV)
Japan's government has approved an emergency budget of 4 trillion yens ($48.9 billion) for the earthquake and tsunami disaster relief in March.
Six weeks after the devastating quake and tsunami in Japan, the government kept its promise of issuing no new bonds to fund the budget likely to be followed by more spending packages to fund reconstruction, Reuters reported.
The budget is expected...
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| | 20 killed in US strike on Pakistan (by PressTV)
At least 20 people have been killed in a US drone attack on the tribal village of Miranshah in northwestern Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan.
Officials reported that the attack by non-UN-sanctioned US drones took place early Friday morning, AFP stated.
Reports have revealed that the unmanned drone strikes in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt have claimed the lives of more than 1,180 people...
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| | US drone strike kills 20 in Pakistan (by PressTV)
At least 20 people have been killed in yet another unauthoraized US drone attack on the tribal village of Miranshah in northwestern Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan.
Officials reported that the non-UN-sanctioned attack by US drones took place early Friday morning, AFP reported.
Reports indicate that the unmanned drone strikes in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt have claimed the lives of...
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| | Iran's exports to Afghanistan hit $1.2bn (by PressTV)
The head of a provincial commerce department in Iran says the Islamic Republic's share in Afghanistan's $6 billion of annual import has reached $1.2 billion.
Speaking at the meeting of a special working group on trade and tourism on Thursday, head of South Khorasan Commercial Organization, Nader Mirshekar, emphasized on the need to further boost exports to Afghanistan at a time when Iran's...
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| | France urges Palestinian statehood (by PressTV)
A French envoy says that the country and its European partners are considering giving formal recognition to a Palestinian state.
French Ambassador to the UN Gerard Araud told a UN Security Council debate on the Middle East on Thursday that "recognition of the state of Palestine is one of the options which France is considering, with its European partners, with a view to creating a...
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| | Egyptian energy minister detained (by PressTV)
Egypt's public prosecutor has detained the former energy minister and five other ex-officials for questioning over a natural gas deal with Israel.
The new Egyptian government has been reviewing deals signed during ousted president Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule, Reuters reported.
General Prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud has brought former Energy Minister Sameh Fahmy and other officials in on...
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| | Israel: ' Islamists to takeover Jordan, too!' (by Rehmats World)
As if Benji Netanyahu Co. were not paranoid enough by the thought of losing their two Muslim strategic allies (Turkey and Egypt) – TIME on April 18, 2011, threw another bombshell – pro-Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), Jordan's main Opposition Party, "virtually took over the protest movement by rallying supporters in the capital Amman, turning out more than 1,000...
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| | Iran's export to Afghanistan hit $1.2 (by PressTV)
The head of a provincial commerce department in Iran says the Islamic Republic's share in Afghanistan's $6 billion of annual import has reached $1.2 billion.
Speaking at the meeting of a special working group on trade and tourism on Thursday, head of South Khorasan Commercial Organization, Nader Mirshekar, emphasized on the need to further boost exports to Afghanistan at a time when Iran's...
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| | BP to pay $1bn for Gulf clean-up (by PressTV)
  | | A pelican covered in oil on the US beach | BP agrees to pay $1bn to fix the damage caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, after Obama held BP accountable for the worst environmental disaster in the US history.
The US Justice Department said the release of the money was the largest restoration agreement of its kind ever reached and was "a first step towards...
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| | Israel destroys buildings in Gaza (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110422/00-55-00-sng-ashraf-gaza.flv Israeli tanks and bulldozers have destroyed factory buildings and storage facilities in an industrial zone in the Gaza Strip, a report says.
The industrial zone -- near the Karni crossing in eastern Gaza -- which was attacked on Thursday, has not been...
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| | US begins drone strikes on Libya (by PressTV)
US President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed predator drones to attack targets in Libya as the UN warns about the humanitarian situation.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates says American drones have carried out their first mission in Libya on Thursday, The Associated Press reported.
Gates says the unmanned predator drones are an example of the military capabilities that the US...
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| | Libya and the new US strategic doctrine (by Thierry Meyssan)
 People often say that generals don't see change coming and prepare the next war as if it should resemble the previous one. The same thing applies to political commentators: they interpret new events not for what they are, but as if they repeated those which preceded them. At the time when popular mass movements deposed Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt many...
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| | 'Aafia Siddiqui's health deteriorating' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110421/21-40-00-ftp-muhammad-karachi.flv The family members of a Pakistani neuroscientist imprisoned in the US say that she has become ill and frail due to her conditions at the notorious Carswell prison.
The mother of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui recently talked to her daughter and says that Aafia's...
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| | Maliki: Iraq can handle its own security (by PressTV)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has told the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff that Baghdad is ready to take control of the country's security measures.
In a meeting with Admiral Mike Mullen, who arrived in Baghdad on Thursday, Maliki said the Iraqi army is capable of maintaining its country's security and that "they worked with professionalism."
The American forces should...
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| | Former singer named Haiti's president (by PressTV)
Popular singer-turned-politician Michel Martelly has officially been announced as Haiti's new president, with official results giving him over 67 per cent of the national vote.
Haitian election officials announced on Wednesday that Martelly had won the presidential elections held on March 20, having defeated the former first lady Mirlande Manigat, dpa reported.
The 50-year-old singer is due...
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| | Sino-Iran economic forum held in China (by PressTV)
  | | Iran and China have signed a memorandum on trade and economic cooperation following the 14th session of joint economic commission in the capital Beijing. | The 14th session of Iran-China Joint Economic Commission has been held in Beijing as officials from the two countries discussed ways to boost bilateral ties on multiple fronts.
The meeting, which was co-chaired by Iranian...
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| | UN warns of Libya humanitarian crisis (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/20110421/21-20-00-ftp-hank.flv A senior United Nations official says that the humanitarian situation in Libya has become more difficult and very dangerous after visiting the war torn country.
UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos has arrived back in New York after a...
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| | Saudi teachers protest job insecurity (by PressTV)
Dozens of teachers in Saudi Arabia's northwestern city of Ha'il have taken to the streets demanding job security and better wages from the government.
The teachers gathered in front of the city's management and education building to protest what they called no-job security.
In a similar protest last week, 250 unemployed university graduates staged a protest in capital Riyadh vowing to keep...
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| | Are You Scared Yet? Big Sis To Beam Terror Warnings To Your iPhone (by Steve Watson)
Government will tell you when to stay indoors The Department of Homeland Security is beefing up it's terror alert warning system in a move that will see terror alerts, whether real or phony, issued via the mainstream media and directly to your phone or computer over social networking sites, and even via Emergency Alert broadcasts. The government's much ridiculed colour coded chart is...
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| | Russia warns against Libya ground oper. (by PressTV)
Russia's foreign minister says that a ground operation in Libya is 'extremely risky' and could have unpredictable consequences.
"We are not happy about the latest events in Libya, which are pulling the international community into a conflict on the ground. This may have unpredictable consequences," Reuters reported Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying in Slovenia on Thursday.
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| | Yemenis renew call on Saleh to resign (by PressTV)
Tens of thousands of Yemeni protesters demanding democratic reforms spilled out into the streets of the capital and insisted President Ali Abdullah Saleh step down after 32 years in power.
The anti-regime protesters gathered in the capital Sana'a, Baida and other cities on Thursday to call for an immediate end to Saleh's decades-long rule.
Saleh gave mixed signals on Wednesday on his...
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| | Eight terrorists nabbed in SW Iran (by PressTV)
Iranian security forces have arrested eight terrorists in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, a week after unidentified gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in the city.
The detainees, who belong to the Khalq-e Arab terrorist group, were apprehended in a joint operation by the Iranian police and intelligence forces early on Thursday, IRIB quoted deputy police chief of Khuzestan province,...
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| | Gul warns Israel of 'Arab sea of anger' (by PressTV)
Turkey's president has warned Israel about the emergence of democracies in the Middle East, which will not tolerate Tel Aviv's oppression against Palestinians.
"Sooner or later, the Middle East will become democratic," wrote Turkish President Abdullah Gul in an opinion piece published in The New York Times on Wednesday, referring to the potential outcome of the ongoing anti-government...
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| | China urges resumption of six-party talks (by PressTV)
China has called for the resumption of the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament, which have been stalled for nearly two years.
"China hopes relevant parties will exercise flexibility by doing more to ease tensions in an effort to create conditions for resuming six-party talks," Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, as saying during a news...
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| | 'Enemies cannot mar Iran-Ecuador ties' (by PressTV)
Ecuador's National Assembly speaker says "the negative propaganda" by the enemies of Iran and Ecuador will not be able to harm Tehran-Quito ties.
Fernando Cordero Cueva said those who oppose close ties between Iran and Ecuador have launched a propaganda campaign aimed at marring the positive relations between the two states.
"But this negative propaganda cannot prevent the expansion...
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| | UN addresses Argentina housing crisis (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/07-32-00-ftp-constanza-buenos aires.flv The UN special rapporteur Rachel Rolnik who has paid a visit to Buenos Aires calls for the construction of more residential units in Argentina as well as regulating the housing market.
In a press conference at the UN headquarters,...
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| | Iran steps up anti-drugs campaign (by PressTV)
Iranian officials say they dismantled more than a hundred drug gangs during last month as the country tightens the noose around dealers and users of narcotics.
Hamid Reza Hosseinabadi, the head of Iran's anti-drug police, said on Thursday that more than 25,500 kilograms of narcotics were seized within the first Persian calendar month of Farvardin (March 21-April 20), IRNA reported.
He said...
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| | South Somalia clashes leave 24 dead (by PressTV)
Clashes between government soldiers backed by African Union forces and al-Shabab fighters have left at least 24 people dead in southern part of Somalia.
At least 24 people were killed on Wednesday evening after clashes broke out between al-Shabab fighters and the transitional government troops in Dhobley and Elwak towns near the border with Kenya, a Press TV correspondent reported.
Most of...
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| | 'CIA at work in Libya, Bahrain' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/r-shoenman-n-rajab-04-20-2011.flv Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi's relationship with the US authorities and the Central Intelligence Agency was active back in the 1990s.
Press TV interviewed Ralph Schoenman, author of The Hidden History of Zionism regarding the US policies on...
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| | Israeli car ad boasts run over of kids (by PressTV)
A new photo advertisement of a Japanese car in Israel has drawn considerable outrage for its implied promotion of running over Palestinian kids.
The commercial advertisement, published by a Subaru dealership in Israel, features the scene photographed last year, when an Israeli settler struck two Palestinian children with his car in the East al-Quds (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Silwan before...
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| | Massive blast kills 15 in Karachi (by PressTV)
At least 15 people have been killed and over 30 others injured after a massive explosion ripped through Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.
The powerful blast targeted Rami Club building in Ghasmandi area of Karachi on Thursday, Geo News reported.
Most of the injured have been shifted to Civil Hospital of the city.
Hospital sources said the death toll would rise as more than 10 of...
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| | Egypt to probe gas sales to Israel (by PressTV)
Egypt's prosecutor orders the country's ex-energy ministers detained for questioning over a controversial gas deal with Israel under the rule of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptian public prosecutor on Thursday issued the arrest warrants against former Energy Minister Sameh Fahmy and two of his predecessors, Reuters reported.
Israel gets 40 percent of its natural gas from Egypt,...
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| | 'Bahrainis deserve more than Al Khalifa' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/zeinab al-khavaja-04-20-2011.flv Bahraini human rights activist Zainab al-Khawaja, who witnessed the arrest of her father, uncle, husband and brothers-in-law, has ended her hunger strike.
Al-Khawaja had criticized the US administration for turning a blind eye to the...
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| | Bahrain clerics slam mosque demolition (by PressTV)
Senior Bahraini clerics have reportedly released a statement, condemning what the describe as 'the shameless destruction of mosques' in the Persian Gulf country by Saudi and Bahraini forces.
"We will not keep silent on destruction of mosques," said the kingdom's top five clergymen, a Press TV correspondent reported.
The clarics emphasized that the events in Bahrain reflect a dark spot in...
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| | The "West" should be forgotten (by Alain DeBenoist)
Zeus and Europa The "West"? Raymond Abellio observed that "Europe is fixed in space, that is to say, in geography, as opposed to the West which is "portable." In fact, the "West" has continued travelling and changing directions. In the beginning that term meant the land where the sun sets (Abendland), as opposed to the land of the rising sun (Morgenland). Starting with the...
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| | Libyan Rebels: War Criminals Supported by West (by Tony Cartalucci)
Even those who have studied for years the criminal consolidation of this planet under the global corporate-financier oligarchy may be noticing that the war in Libya is turning into something new and unprecedented. The lies and propaganda have hit an all time high and no article encapsulates this better than the bizarre, grotesque piece out of the New York Times titled, "Inferior Arms Hobble...
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| | Iran, Egypt sign tourism agreement (by PressTV)
A number of Iranian tourism agencies have signed an agreement with Egypt to facilitate the exchange of tourists between the two countries.
Based on the new agreement, some 10,000 Iranian nationals will be able to travel to Egypt monthly while 60,000 Egyptians can visit Iran annually, according to Chairman of the Iran-Egypt Council of Merchants Muhyaddin Al-Gandur.
The agreement, which was...
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| | Bangladesh ferry sinks, kills 26 (by PressTV)
At least 26 people have been killed and scores of others remain missing after a passenger ferry sank in a river in northeastern Bangladesh.
The ferry, carrying more than 100 people on board, went under after it struck the remains of a sunken cargo vessel in the Meghna River in Sarail district, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of the capital Dhaka early on Thursday, AFP...
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| | 'Saudis pay US to keep mum on Bahrain' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-21-2011/na-04-20-2011.flv US policymakers get huge financial support by Saudi Arabia to remain silent over the Riyadh-assisted crackdown on anti-government protests in Bahrain, says a political observer.
"The Saudi monarchy has been able to win the favors of the Western powers,...
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| | Salehi: Iran-Pakistan ties expanding (by PressTV)
The Iranian foreign minister has hailed developing bilateral ties between Tehran and Islamabad in a ceremony marking Pakistan's National Day.
"The relations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan are expanding and satisfactory," Ali Akbar Salehi said at a meeting with Pakistan's chargé d'affaires in Tehran Aman Rashid late Wednesday, IRNA reported on Thursday.
Salehi also...
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